Gary 7 Vodcasts: Social TV, Serious Games, Machinima, Social Media & MultiPlatform
Running the Australian Laboratory for Advanced Media production I often have to provide a broad...
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Machinima Rivals Animation
As is my curse I gave another overview introduction presentation last week on films made with...
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The Phone – New Form Social Media Entertainment?
Clip above from the earlier Australian version of The Phone in Feb 09 & interview with its...
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The Avatars Take Over the Asylum – Layered ‘Social’ Virtual Worlds
Fed up with your avatar having to live inside a wall-garden world? Want to bring it out into the...
Read MoreWeb 2.0 and the Myth of Non-Participation
At the Cross-Media Storytelling conference a few days ago I witnessed a strange event with one of the categories of speakers. There were three groups of speakers, forward thinking practitioners, catch-up heritage media...
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Witnessing the Birth of An Entertainment Form
The Relentless March of Channels and Formats into Second Life Rather than just referring to the...
Read MoreSmashing Down Second Life’s 4th Wall
Will the ‘Avatar Based Marketing’ initiatives be a tsunami that will break down the fourth wall of Second Life for most, and in the process end the growth of premium subscribers many who use the world for other...
Read MoreSecond Life – The Creative Tool for the Masses
Give people very simple and highly social tools for producing and creatively sharing content and truly inventive things will happen. In a growing ‘easy to publish’ movement the current user generated, digital...
Read MoreCross-media Puzzles are King
Humans love to work through problems. When we were producing early broadband and interactive TV services at the BBC from 2000-4 it came as a big surprise that outings such as Test the Nation (IQ), maze games and video/audio...
Read MoreThe Rise and Rise of Blogs
A fabulous, clear page from David Sifry on the growth of the blogosphere as at April 2006. His exec summary: In summary: The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago...
Read MoreMilia 6 – The Media Tidal Wave
Following on from a couple of posts ago on the theme of how we are going to find stuff in the sea of content, one of the other overriding themes of Milia (and the Mip market) was that of the deluge of viewer created content...
Read MoreMilia 5 – Genius of the Market, Entertainment Everywhere
Of the nineteen, yes 19, presentations I attended at this years Milia my favourite must have been the Mobility and Content: Entertainment Everywhere! Held in the Esterel on Thursday morning – this panel seemed to cover all...
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